It all starts with someone like you nominating one of those very-deserving BMX luminaries, who made a genuine difference in the sport, from your point of view. Nominations are open once annually.
After seven years of dreaming, legal wrangling, public hearings and planning, the long-proposed USA BMX “Epicenter” facility broke ground last Friday in Tulsa. The USA BMX “red” trailer served as a backdrop for the event, which was attended by 100+ local dignitaries, movers and shakers and members of Tulsa media.
NewsTeam member, Jonathan “Hoagie” Hoag was on-site at the event, and offered his take on the proceedings.
The project goes back to a meeting in 2012 with the city and USA BMX Houston apparently at an In-N-Out Burger somewhere.
“What I saw was a long hard road of back and forth negotiations to make this dream a reality. Tulsa wanted it, a couple of other cities tried to poach it,” said Ray Hoyt, senior vice president of Regional Tourism for the Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Each year, the second, third and fourth place finishers from the previous year earn an automatic nomination for the following year. In 2020, those automatic nominees are as follows:
Saturday’s USA BMX Pro Spectacular featured packed stands of hootin’ and hollerin’ BMX fans, and a heapin’ helping of action, with every gate-drop.
The YouTube Live (embedded below) has all the amazing, pedal-by-pedal details… but, if you’ll pardon the spoiler on how it turns out, here are the results of the top classes, the Golden Crank Award winners, and the three title chases (which were, admittedly, not much of a surprise).
There is no need to re-nominate the following people listed above.
“Anyone can nominate anyone” means that you, nor the person you nominate do not need to be part of some kind of “inner circle” of connected 2022 BMX World Championship-elites. At the same time, only FIVE new nominees will be on the final ballot, so make your case in a compelling way.
Use the link below to take a look at the ballot, and the information you will need to put together the supporting information needed for a complete nomination.
In what was one of the biggest moments of on-track excitement of the evening; round three of the Vet Pro main (2:25:41 in the video below), Tyler Brown is leading Jonathan “The Mosquito” Suarez when, in the last turn, Suarez makes an inside move, and leads TB up-and-over the turn.
There is an 18-second “please stand by” in the webcast, just before the gate drops on the Junior Women main (which felt like a million years), and when it comes back–at 2:29:47, it is announced that Suarez was disqualified for that round.
TB and Suarez were in a title chase, coming in to the evening but, once on the stage to award TB the Cup, USA BMX Nantes 2022 Live Stream, BA Anderson told the crowd (2:39:12) that the DQ did not affect the title. As noted in the results, above, TB placed second for the day, and Suarez placed third (as a result of his finishes in the previous two mains).
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